..The study investigated whether received social support, self-efficacy, and finding benefits in disease are related to physical functioning and adherence to antiretroviral medication among men and women infected with HIV...

Improving fruit and vegetable consumption: a self-efficacy intervention compared with a combined self-efficacy and planning intervention

..3 cookies less among individuals with a more controlled eating style. By contrast, among those who presented uncontrolled eating, positive mood enhancement led to consuming an average of 1.7 cookies more...

Multidimensional health locus of control: comments on the construct and its measurement

..In the context of mainly gastrointestinal cancer surgery, the study examines the course of spousal support in 173 dyads over half a year to illuminate the function of gender in support transactions...

An implementation intentions intervention, the use of a planning strategy, and physical activity after myocardial infarction

..Only patients who participated in the implementation intention intervention and increased their use of a planning strategy adhered to the recommended three or more sessions of moderate physical activity per week...

Jewish and non-Jewish World War II child and adolescent survivors at 60 years after war: effects of parental loss and age at exposure on well-being

..For certain subgroups (e.g., Jewish survivors who had not lost their parents during WWII), war trauma may have less profound effects if most of the trauma exposure occurred during an earlier age (i.e., <5 years)...

..However, changes in benefit finding predicted subsequent well-being. Received support was associated with benefit finding. Changes in benefit finding as well as initial support emerged as joint predictors of well-being...

Discontinuity patterns in stages of the precaution adoption process model: meat consumption during a livestock epidemic

Falko F SniehottaSchool of Psychology, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, UKBr J Health Psychol 10:221-35. 2005

..It was hypothesized that non-linear trends (discontinuity patterns) in perceived vulnerability, positive and negative outcome expectancies, procrastination, and self-efficacy might be observed across the stages...

..Adoption and maintenance of health behaviors are often poorly predicted by behavioral intentions. To bridge the gap between intentions and behavior, strategic planning and recovery self-efficacy have been suggested as proximal predictors...

Two kinds of items in quality of life instruments: 'indicator and causal variables' in the EORTC qlq-c30